Re: [Thumbgps-devel] Promoting the Macx-1

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The Ublox 6 document (page 136) has "Align to UTC" for the messages and the
option to change the rate.

It would be interesting to compare the jitter and offset with this set and
not using PPS>

And there is a lot of discussion on dead reckoning.

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Jau-Yang Chen <cjy@navisys.com.tw> wrote:

> Dear Eric,
>
> Thanks again for your kind support. It's our responsibility to provide the
> good performance product with better quality to our customers. It's really
> the great reward for all of your help to promote Macx-1.
>
> For dead-reckoning and 1PPS issue, we will double check and come back to
> you.
>
> The data sheet of GR-601 is also attached. You are much appreciated to
> review and improve it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> JY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric S. Raymond [mailto:esr@thyrsus.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:14 AM
> To: cjy@navisys.com.tw
> Cc: 'veronica'; tcf@navisys.com.tw; thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net;
> 'lily'; gloria@navisys.com.tw
> Subject: Promoting the Macx-1
>
> >From Jau-Yang Chen <cjy@navisys.com.tw>
> >                 It will be great and much appreciated if we could have
> >a  channel to sell this winning product in Amazon.
>
> Working on it.  But no result yet - I may have to go through several links
> in a chain of references.
>
> > We plan to put an article as attached on our website for advertisement.
> > Could you please review and comment?
>
> Have reviewed.  You can quote any of that you like.
>
> >                            It will be helpful to promote Macx-1 USB
> > GPS receiver if you could also put it in the website of your
> > SIG/project.
>
> Done. Find it on <http://catb.org/gpsd/hardware.html>
>
> Also note that once we confirm a U.S. retail partner for you guys I will
> promote the product on my blog and Google+.  As I have over
> 18,000 blog and G+ followers with a heavy concentration among programmers
> and engineers who are likely GPS customers, this is exposure many vendors
> would kill for.  I have never plugged a product before; this will be your
> reward for a job very well done.
>
> The market you will be selling the Macx-1 into is much more interested in
> detailed technical information about the device than you are probably used
> to.  The datasheet for this device should list the exact uBlox chip or
> module it uses, the NMEA version, and (most importantly!) a link to
> programming information about the GPS engine - uBlox's technical manual on
> programming the chip would do.
>
> One of our people already mentioned turning off the dead-reckoning feature
> so the device won't emit PPS after it has lost lock. One reason to link to
> the technical manual is so we can determine if this is really an issue; it
> might be the firmware stops emitting PPS in dead-reckoning mode, and that's
> exactly the sort of detail Macx-1 customers will be interested in.
>
> Another one of our people, Dave Taht, has inquired about customized cases.
> That gives me an interesting marketing idea.  Look at the GPSD project logo
> at <http://catb.org/gpsd/gpsd-logo-small.png>. That's a Linux penguin with
> GPS satellites orbiting it.  You might want to think about doing a batch of
> these with the logo on the case - with a little promotion they'd probably
> sell like crazy to Linux fans.
>
> My offer to review and improve the English version of your technical
> documentation is still open.
> --
>                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
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